Knockdown package.



No. 758,957. PATENTED MAY 3, 1904.

J.- M. a J. J. GALLAWAY.

KNOGKDOWN PACKAGE.

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5: 2 Inventors V ga y- By Attorney U ITED "ST TES ERQME M- @ALLAWAY Patented May 3, 1904f PATENT OFFICE.

. KNOCKDOWN PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION. formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 758,957, dated May 3, 1964.

7 Application filed August 27, 1903. Serial Ila 170,952. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JEROME M. CALLAWAY and JAMES J. OALLAWAY, citizens of the United States, residing ,at Laurel, in the county of Sussex and State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knockdown Packages; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to knockdown packages of the barrel type; and the object in view, primarily, is to provide devices of this character which in shipping to the purchaser may be laid flat out in banks, thus materially saving space and the costof transportation and which when they arriveat their destination may be easily and expeditiously assembled into barrel form.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan View of the blank, which is adapted to be folded to form the body of the barrel. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the completed barrel. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View through one head and one stave of the barrel. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the hoop before it is secured to the staves of the barrel. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view through the hoop after the sides of the barrel have been folded and the ends of the hoops locked together. Fig. 6 is aview taken at right angles to Fig. 5.

The blank from which the body or sides of the barrel is vmade is composed of staves or slats 1, spaced apart for the purpose of affording proper ventilation to the contents of the barrel and connected by flexible hoops 2, nailed or otherwise secured to the staves or slats and provided with interlocking ends. 3 and 4 denote the heads of the barrel. These 7 blanks, with their heads, may in transportation be compactly banked, and thus very greatly economize space and largely reduce the cost of transportation to the purchaser.

After receiving these blanks he'may then easily and quicklyset up the barrel for use, and

this is done in the following manrier; The

blank is bent or rolled into cylindrical shape, and the interlocking ends are connected. The lower head is then placed in position, and after the barrel has been filled the upper head is then placed in position.

We have found as aconvenient way of locking the ends of the hoops together that shown in the drawings, which consists in forming at one end of each hoop a T-shaped head 6 and forming at the opposite end lips 7 which are adapted to be bent about the narrow neck of the T-shaped head, and thussecurely lock the ends of the hoops together. This may be easily done even without tools, the fingers being sufficient for performing this operation.

It will be observed by referring to Fig. 3 that the heads of the barrel have beveled peripheries and that the staves are provided with stop-blocks 8. This is an important feature in that after the body of the barrel has been formed and the ends of the hoops connected together theinsertion of these bevel-edged heads insures a tight and snug fit, and if desired several nails 9 may be driven through the hoops and staves into the heads for the ciple or sacrificing any of the advantages of this inventlon.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A ventilated package-blank comprising, in combination, a body formed of spaced slats, flexible metal bands crossing said slats, and

fastenings connecting each band with each individual slat, each of said bands having a fixed and a free end, the latter projecting beyond the contiguous end slat, the said free end of each being provided with diametrically opposite notches in its side edges forming an integral T- head, and the fixed end having bands when connected are reinforced in a di-- rect transverse line, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof ive have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing wit- I 5 nesses.

JEROME M. OALLAVVAY. JAMES J. CALLAVVAY.

Witnesses:

BENJ. G. CoWL, PHILIP W. FAUNoE. 

